| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −8h on 24 Oct |
Odense, Denmark runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Odense and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Odense lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Odense and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Odense lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Odense and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Odense lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Odense.
Odense (Denmark) is home to roughly 180K people. Today brings about 11.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:19, sunset at 18:57. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 55° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Denmark
Capital
Copenhagen
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Copenhagen
Coordinates
55.40°N, 10.39°E
Currency
DKK (kr)
Calling Code
+45
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Danish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Andersen was born in Odense in 1805 and published around 156 fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages — among the most translated works of any author. His childhood home is a museum.
The clock: Odense keeps UTC+1. Funen's first railway, from Nyborg to Odense, opened in 1865 and helped make the city a manufacturing centre; it is now better known for robotics.
Odense lies at 10.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 4.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:18 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 78 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:18.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 28m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h 5m. The swing between them is 10h 24m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Odense the sun comes up earliest on 19 June at 04:35, while the latest sunset waits until 25 June at 22:05. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Odense that civil twilight runs about 37 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 60 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Odense, Denmark is Europe/Copenhagen with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Odense has an estimated population of 180K and is located at coordinates 55.40°N, 10.39°E.
Odense gets 17h 28m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 5m on its shortest, averaging 12h 19m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Odense falls at about 12:18 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 4.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Hans Christian Andersen's Town: Andersen was born in Odense in 1805 and published around 156 fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages — among the most translated works of any author. His childhood home is a museum.